always enable IPv6 address in /etc/hosts (via _gethtent()).

clarify RES_USE_INET6.  the use of this bit is not meaningful
on openbsd (as we don't have mapped addr support in kernel).

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/lib/libc/net/resolver.3 b/src/lib/libc/net/resolver.3
index 27d393193d..9b2471d823 100644
--- a/src/lib/libc/net/resolver.3
+++ b/src/lib/libc/net/resolver.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"     $OpenBSD: resolver.3,v 1.12 1999/07/05 04:41:00 aaron Exp $
+.\"     $OpenBSD: resolver.3,v 1.13 2000/01/03 11:51:08 itojun Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1985, 1991, 1993
 .\"     The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -171,7 +171,11 @@ This is used by the standard host lookup routine
 .Xr gethostbyname 3 .
 This option is enabled by default.
 .It Dv RES_USE_INET6
-Enable support for IPv6 addresses.
+Enables support for IPv6-only applications.
+This causes IPv4 addresses to be returned as an IPv4 mapped address.
+For example, 10.1.1.1 will be returned as ::ffff:10.1.1.1.
+The option is not meaningful on
+.Ox .
 .El
 .Pp
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